A. J. Levan

25.5k citations

249 papers · 4.4k · 3 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.5%
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
Instrumentation top 2%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

Papers in

Astronomy and Astrophysics 236
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 224
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 95
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research 62
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 47
Biomedical Engineering 72
- SAS software applications and methods 70

Co-authors: N. R. Tanvir (123 shared papers)A. S. Fruchter (44 shared papers)J. Hjorth (41 shared papers)K. Wiersema (74 shared papers)P. T. O’Brien (27 shared papers)J. P. U. Fynbo (47 shared papers)Rachel Tunnicliffe (5 shared papers)A. Rowlinson (5 shared papers)
Journals: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (57 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (27 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (21 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters (7 papers)Nature (3 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Netherlands

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A. J. Levan

215 papers receiving 4.1k citations

A. J. Levan's Hit Papers

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Identification of strontium in the merger of two neutron stars 2019 · 281 citations

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Nature
2013 Nature
2013 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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1	A ‘kilonova’ associated with the short-duration γ-ray burst GRB 130603B Nature ·N. R. Tanvir, A. J. Levan, A. S. Fruchter, J. Hjorth, Rebekah Hounsell, K. Wiersema, Rachel Tunnicliffe Hit paper breakdown →	2013	407
2	Signatures of magnetar central engines in short GRB light curves Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·A. Rowlinson, P. T. O’Brien, Brian D. Metzger, N. R. Tanvir, A. J. Levan Hit paper breakdown →	2013	286
3	Identification of strontium in the merger of two neutron stars Nature ·D. Watson, C. J. Hansen, J. Selsing, Andreas Koch, D. Malesani, Anja C. Andersen, J. P. U. Fynbo, Almudena Arcones, Andreas Bauswein, S. Covino, A. Grado, K. E. Heintz, L. K. Hunt, C. Kouveliotou, G. Leloudas, A. J. Levan, P. A. Mazzali, E. Pian Hit paper breakdown →	2019	281
4	The unusual X-ray emission of the short Swift GRB 090515: evidence for the formation of a magnetar? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·A. Rowlinson, P. T. O’Brien, N. R. Tanvir, Bing Zhang, P. A. Evans, N. Lyons, A. J. Levan, R. Willingale, K. L. Page, Ö. Önal, D. N. Burrows, A. P. Beardmore, T. N. Ukwatta, E. Berger, J. Hjorth, A. S. Fruchter, Rachel Tunnicliffe, D. B. Fox, Antonino Cucchiara	2010	137
5	DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE GALAXIES HOSTING SHORT-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURSTS The Astrophysical Journal ·Wen‐fai Fong, E. Berger, R. Chornock, R. Margutti, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, Rachel Tunnicliffe, Ian Czekala, D. B. Fox, D. A. Perley, S. B. Cenko, B. A. Zauderer, T. Laskar, S. E. Persson, Andrew Monson, D. D. Kelson, Christoph Birk, David Murphy, M. Servillat, Guillem Anglada	2013	105
6	A POPULATION OF MASSIVE, LUMINOUS GALAXIES HOSTING HEAVILY DUST-OBSCURED GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE USE OF GRBs AS TRACERS OF COSMIC STAR FORMATION The Astrophysical Journal ·D. A. Perley, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, S. B. Cenko, J. S. Bloom, J. Hjorth, T. Krühler, A. V. Filippenko, A. S. Fruchter, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson, Jason S. Kalirai, B. Milvang‐Jensen, A. N. Morgan, J. X. Prochaska, J. Silverman	2013	105
7	Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) ·Gavin P. Lamb, J. Lyman, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, T. Kangas, A. S. Fruchter, B. P. Gompertz, J. Hjorth, Ilya Mandel, S. R. Oates, D. Steeghs, K. Wiersema	2019	100
8	Swift J1112.2−8238: a candidate relativistic tidal disruption flare Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·G. C. Brown, A. J. Levan, E. R. Stanway, N. R. Tanvir, S. B. Cenko, E. Berger, R. Chornock, A. Cucchiaria	2015	94
9	The host galaxies of core-collapse supernovae and gamma-ray bursts Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·K. M. Svensson, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, A. S. Fruchter, Louis-Gregory Strolger	2010	90
10	THE OPTICALLY UNBIASED GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST (TOUGH) SURVEY. I. SURVEY DESIGN AND CATALOGS The Astrophysical Journal ·J. Hjorth, D. Malesani, P. Jakobsson, A. O. Jaunsen, J. P. U. Fynbo, Javier Gorosabel, T. Krühler, A. J. Levan, M. J. Michałowski, B. Milvang‐Jensen, P. Møller, S. Schulze, N. R. Tanvir, D. Watson	2012	88
11	Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) ·J. Hjorth, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, J. Lyman, Radosław Wojtak, Sophie L. Schrøder, Ilya Mandel, C. Gall, S. H. Bruun	2017	83
12	The case for a minute-long merger-driven gamma-ray burst from fast-cooling synchrotron emission Nature Astronomy ·B. P. Gompertz, M. E. Ravasio, M. Nicholl, A. J. Levan, Brian D. Metzger, S. R. Oates, Gavin P. Lamb, Wen‐fai Fong, D. Malesani, Jillian Rastinejad, N. R. Tanvir, P. A. Evans, P. G. Jonker, K. L. Page, Asaf Pe’er	2022	63
13	The host galaxies and explosion sites of long-duration gamma ray bursts: Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared imaging Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·J. Lyman, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, J. P. U. Fynbo, J. T. W. McGuire, D. A. Perley, C. R. Angus, J. S. Bloom, Christopher J. Conselice, A. S. Fruchter, J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, R. L. C. Starling	2017	63
14	Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors Space Science Reviews ·A. J. Levan, P. A. Crowther, Richard de Grijs, N. Langer, D. Xu, Sung-Chul Yoon	2016	61
15	An origin in the local Universe for some short γ-ray bursts Nature ·N. R. Tanvir, R. Chapman, A. J. Levan, R. S. Priddey	2005	60
16	Spatially Resolved Properties of the GRB 060505 Host: Implications for the Nature of the Progenitor1 The Astrophysical Journal ·C. C. Thöne, J. P. U. Fynbo, Göran Östlin, B. Milvang‐Jensen, K. Wiersema, D. Malesani, Desirée Della Monica Ferreira, Javier Gorosabel, Д. А. Канн, D. Watson, M. J. Michałowski, A. S. Fruchter, A. J. Levan, J. Hjorth, J. Sollerman	2008	57
17	An achromatic break in the afterglow of the short GRB 140903A: evidence for a narrow jet Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) ·E. Troja, T. Sakamoto, S. B. Cenko, A. Y. Lien, N. Gehrels, A. J. Castro‐Tirado, R. Ricci, J. Capone, V. Toy, A. Kutyrev, N. Kawai, Antonino Cucchiara, A. S. Fruchter, J. Gorosabel, S. Jeong, A. J. Levan, D. A. Perley, R. Sánchez-Ramírez, N. R. Tanvir, Sylvain Veilleux	2016	53
18	The Diversity of Kilonova Emission in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) ·B. P. Gompertz, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, J. Hjorth, S. Covino, P. A. Evans, A. S. Fruchter, C. Gónzalez-Fernández, Zhi-Ping Jin, J. Lyman, S. R. Oates, P. T. O’Brien, K. Wiersema	2018	53
19	On the nature of the ‘hostless’ short GRBs Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Rachel Tunnicliffe, A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, A. Rowlinson, D. A. Perley, J. S. Bloom, S. B. Cenko, P. T. O’Brien, B. E. Cobb, K. Wiersema, D. Malesani, A. de Ugarte Postigo, J. Hjorth, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson	2013	52
20	AHubble Space Telescopesurvey of the host galaxies of Superluminous Supernovae Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·C. R. Angus, A. J. Levan, D. A. Perley, N. R. Tanvir, J. Lyman, E. R. Stanway, A. S. Fruchter	2016	51

About A. J. Levan

A. J. Levan is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, having authored 249 papers that have together received 4.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (224 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (95 papers), SAS software applications and methods (70 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (62 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (47 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (36 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (35 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (4.2k citations), Instrumentation (339 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.1k citations), Geophysics (109 citations) and Radiation (41 citations). A. J. Levan has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include N. R. Tanvir, A. S. Fruchter, J. Hjorth, K. Wiersema, P. T. O’Brien, J. P. U. Fynbo, Rachel Tunnicliffe, A. Rowlinson, Brian D. Metzger and Rebekah Hounsell. Their work appears in journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters and Nature.

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